Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin School Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours List Price:$110.56 Our Price:$110.56 Authors: Mary P. Dolciani Description:

This book really teaches everything you need to know for Algebra, as I have looked at the Algebra I book (next book in the series.) This book is actually kind of confusing. It does not explain things very well, as it only defines vocabulary, and shows example problems. I wouldn't have done very well in this course if it wasn't for the daily notes our math teacher made us take.

This book tells basically everything, in a challenging manner. The "A" problems indicated that the problems were pretty basic. The "B" problems indicated that the problems were fairly dificult.
The "C" problems indicated that the problems were very hard, nearly making you want to rip your brains out. However, this was an accelerated course, so it's to be expected. The problems took a lot of math sense and logic. The only things that this book didn't teach was Polynomials. We had to use worksheets from the Eight grade pre-algebra book (by Glencoe) to do this.

Some of the methods in the book are clearly outdated, including using Trig tables and Interpolation. We used other methods when we came to that.

Overall, this book really prepared us for Algebra, in a challenging manner, and was 10 times better than Everyday Mathematics (used in elementry), even though some of the methods are outdated. Dolciani should be congradulated.

P.S., Our school is using these books again, even though many are falling apart. They are just buying new used ones, because this was the only good Pre-Algebra AP book they could find.


Good Text Book
My 7th grade math class uses this as our text book. It's a really cool book. It explains things really well. Get this book if you need help with: INTRODUCTION TO ALGEBRA Using Variables, Finding Solutions

POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE NUMBERS Sums and Differences, Products and Quocients

RATIONAL NUMBERS Number Theory and Fractions, Operations with Fractions

SOLVING EQUATIONS Using Transformations, Word Problems

GEOMETRIC FIGURES Basic Figures, Figures in the Plane

RATIO, PROPORTION, AND PERCENT Ratio and Proportion, Percents

PERCENTS AND PROBLEM SOLVING Buisness and Consumer Problems, Investment and Application Problems

THE COORDINATE PLANE Equations and the Coordinate Plane, Graphing Systems in the Coordinate Plane

AREAS AND VOLUMES Areas, Volumes and Areas of Solids

APPLYING ALGEBRA TO RIGHT TRIANGLES Square Roots, Using Right Triangles

STATISTICS AND PROBABILITY Analyzing Data, Probability



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